Janet Bixby

Associate Dean and Associate Professor

Copyright, Steve Hambuchen

Rogers Hall

Janet Bixby is Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Education at the Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling, where she has been on the faculty since 2001. Janet began her teaching career as a Social Studies teacher at Brainerd High School in Minnesota (where the film Fargo was really filmed), and also taught high school in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After getting her Master’s degree at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and her PhD at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, she joined the faculty at Lewis & Clark. At Lewis & Clark she has been teaching courses on curriculum and pedagogy in secondary social studies as well as professional seminars on secondary teaching.

Areas of Expertise

Current Research

Most recently she has been serving as the Co-Director of a federally funded Teaching American History (TAH) grant project aimed at improving the quality of history teaching in K-12 schools in Central Oregon. She has run workshops for teachers over the summer at OHSU in a National Institutes of Health funded project aimed at improving the teaching of science in the middle school grades. Her work focused on teaching controversial issues. Before that she conducted research on alumni of a youth civic education non-profit called Mikva Challenge, based in Chicago and edited a book on youth civic education.